what we saw was a deal, as i said, that restored tax cuts to 99% of american taxpayers, and we put off the question with of these very serious, draconian, across-the-board, blunt cuts to nestic and defense -- domestic and defense programs and as president obama said in his debate in the fall with mitt romney simply were not going to happen. his own defense secretary said they would be so damaging to the military, he has been urging the president repeatedly not to let them come online. and so we're looking at a situation where we actually has the chance to engage with the congress. republicans are waiting because they don't want to raise more taxes to see what spending cuts he would replace them with. but this is not a situation where republicans are to blame about the sequester. there's bipartisan complicity in coming to those numbers and blame if we go into the sequester. but the president ultimately knows he can't have a good second term, he can't get these other controversial initiatives passed if he's fighting with republicans about spending cuts, um, in a very bad environment with